ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,016, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to UnitedHealth Group Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing topic models to weight mixture-of-experts for improvement of language modeling" was invented by Ardavan Saeedi (Jersey City, N.J.), Eran Halperin (Santa Monica, Calif.), Joel David Stremmel (Iowa City, Iowa) and Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for predicting a next text. A method may include receiving one or more documents, such as a document associated with a healthcare provider. The document is then processed to generate one or more tokens which...